A bilingual author of wide influence among Chinese readers, C. T. Hsia has also published several volumes of criticism and essays in both Taiwan and mainland China, and coedited with Joseph S. M. Lau and Leo O. Lee Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 for Columbia University Press. He retired from teaching in 1991 and is now professor emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University.

[These essays] stand as a remarkable critical legacy and record of one of the leading US experts on Chinese literature. Forum for Modern Language Studies

• Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Chinese Literature in Perspective Classical Chinese Literature: Its Reception Today as a Product of Traditional Culture Chinese Novels and American Critics: Reflections on Structure, Tradition, and Satire On the "Scientific" Study of Modern Chinese Literature: A Reply to Professor Prusek Part II. Traditional Drama An Introduction to The Romance of the Western Chamber Time and the Human Condition in the Plays of T'ang Hsien-tsu Part III. Traditional and Early Modern Fiction The Military Romance: A Genre of Chinese Fiction Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber: A Critique The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-hua yuan Yen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction The Travels of Lao Ts'an: An Exploration of Its Art and Meaning Hsu Chen-ya's Yu-li hun: An Essay in Literary History and Criticism Part IV. Modern Fiction Introduction to Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 The Korchin Banner Plains: A Biographical and Critical Study Residual Femininity: Women in Chinese Communist Fiction Foreword to Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970 Black Tears: An Introduction to Peng Ko's Stories Notes Glossary Index

A bilingual author of wide influence among Chinese readers, C. T. Hsia has also published several volumes of criticism and essays in both Taiwan and mainland China, and coedited with Joseph S. M. Lau and Leo O. Lee Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 for Columbia University Press. He retired from teaching in 1991 and is now professor emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University.

[These essays] stand as a remarkable critical legacy and record of one of the leading US experts on Chinese literature. Forum for Modern Language Studies

• Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Chinese Literature in Perspective Classical Chinese Literature: Its Reception Today as a Product of Traditional Culture Chinese Novels and American Critics: Reflections on Structure, Tradition, and Satire On the "Scientific" Study of Modern Chinese Literature: A Reply to Professor Prusek Part II. Traditional Drama An Introduction to The Romance of the Western Chamber Time and the Human Condition in the Plays of T'ang Hsien-tsu Part III. Traditional and Early Modern Fiction The Military Romance: A Genre of Chinese Fiction Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber: A Critique The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-hua yuan Yen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction The Travels of Lao Ts'an: An Exploration of Its Art and Meaning Hsu Chen-ya's Yu-li hun: An Essay in Literary History and Criticism Part IV. Modern Fiction Introduction to Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 The Korchin Banner Plains: A Biographical and Critical Study Residual Femininity: Women in Chinese Communist Fiction Foreword to Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960-1970 Black Tears: An Introduction to Peng Ko's Stories Notes Glossary Index